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Well said, I agree completely.

> I wager there are at least some decisions a PE needs Director approval on (where the reverse is never true).

While a PE is probably not /asking/ for Director approval on their decisions, I would say they do have the power to create almost as much business impact by making good or bad decisions in their work -- both formal decisions about things like architecture, stack choices, etc as well as informal decisions like how they treat their teammates, who they recommend for hire, etc. The old trope of "the old greybeard in the corner who won't let us do anything" comes to mind.

tkrajcaron The Impossible Music of Black MIDI

Circus Galop was actually originally written for player pianos, not "in" MIDI, but with a surprisingly similar goal in mind to black MIDI. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Circus_Galop

tkrajcaron Go is moving to GitHub

I'm curious what Gerrit gets them that Github doesn't have natively, too.

tkrajcaron Ducksboard is joining New Relic

But New Relic isn't necessarily designed to be a tool to save you hosting $ (although I suppose it could). What about as a tool to save engineering hours, and increase conversion rates by reducing error rates and improving performance? Maybe the "worth it" changes then -- especially when you consider that we have a Lite product that's absolutely free for unlimited apps, servers, and request volume -- just limited to 24 hour data retention and missing some of our more advanced/in-depth features.

I work for New Relic, obviously :)

tkrajcaron Malaysia Airlines Says It Lost Contact With Plane Carrying Over 200

Likely a reuse of their "site down for maintenance" functionality.

tkrajcaron Here is a thing that happened

Yep. The enrollment process is laborious, but it's worthwhile for those of us that deal with quarterly estimated tax payments. https://www.eftps.gov/

tkrajcaron I like to read ALL Hackernews Comments.

Extremely helpful, thank you!

tkrajcaron Windows to Mac to Windows to Mac to... Linux? It doesn't matter.

iTerm2 (http://www.iterm2.com/) is a mighty fine drop-in replacement for Terminal.app that adds a whole basket of useful features. I live in it and love it. :)

tkrajcaron Windows to Mac to Windows to Mac to... Linux? It doesn't matter.

Well, hang on there. I'm not here to become Mr. Homebrew Defender, but saying 'this project has 400 pull requests, that's a problem' isn't fair at all. The majority of those pull requests represent users updating formulas to new versions of things, or adding new formulas, not fixing problems that prevent things from compiling.

Like any solution, particularly a 100% opensource solution, it's not perfect, but it does do the job, the majority of the time. YMMV, but I have 24 Homebrew formulas installed and have had zero problems with any of them.

tkrajcaron Windows to Mac to Windows to Mac to... Linux? It doesn't matter.

http://mxcl.github.com/homebrew/

See you in the Apple Store.

tkrajcaron Tools I Use - tmux

I use screen regularly, but mostly to be able to attach and detach to sessions as I move between work, home, etc.

tmux users frequently tout its ability to do nifty split screens and other window management, but I'm not sure I understand the value of doing this over just starting another iterm2 window/tab and using regular window management tools. Cmd-tilde or Cmd-tab is one less key than Ctrl-a, h.... :) What am I missing?

tkrajcaron JQuery plugins site accidentally deleted - last backup one year old.

Except they're still going to use WordPress, which is... a content management system.

tkrajcaron Canonical drops CouchDB because they were unable to make it scale up

Go ahead and write your self-congratulatory blogpost when Ruby "withers and dies". If HN is still around in 40-50 years, I'm sure it'll hit the frontpage.

tkrajcaron LinkedIn Shares Tumble After ‘Lockup’ Expires

Three whole percent?! Zzz.

tkrajcaron Where are the learning environments that are just like games like Skyrim?

Yeah, as a classical musician (and huge Chopin fan) and gamer I found Eternal Sonata to be an awesome game. Loved the interludes the most, of course...!

tkrajcaron Please Poach Me

You'd be surprised.

tkrajcaron Please Poach Me

except that every potential-employee listed has their current company listed in the results that this site shows...

tkrajcaron Please Poach Me

Yup, exactly. Decent idea, but this kills it completely.

tkrajcaron If you want to get rich, stop being a fucking joker

What, no steak knives?

tkrajcaron My Reasons for Leaving .NET

Great read, thanks. Very similar to how I've been feeling lately.

tkrajcaron InstaCSS: the CSS docs you always wish you had

sigh

tkrajcaron Planes overhead

flightaware.com has allowed you to do this for years...

tkrajcaron 10gen's response to MongoDB's slams

As a recent adopter of MongoDB, it was interesting to read about the issues that were raised. While I was already reasonably familiar with how it worked from my experiences with it, following this whole kerfuffle has actually been an interesting insight into the history of MongoDB and helps equip me as a potential advocate/evangelist to be able to respond to common criticisms.

10gen definitely handled it perfectly.